Web Response Time deployment

Install the Web Response Time agent either to a web server or, if you prefer not to modify your web server, in appliance mode. In appliance mode, install Web Response Time either locally on the server, or remotely on a different host.

Web Response Time deployment

The following diagram illustrates a typical deployment:

Typical deployment described in text
  • Install on each web server or install in appliance mode using port spanning to monitor the entire web cluster.
  • If you are using appliance mode, ensure that you install Web Response Time where it can access the traffic you want to monitor.
  • If you are using agentless transaction tracking you may want to monitor all traffic on all ports. If you are monitoring a particular web server, you may want to monitor the traffic only on a particular port, such as port 80.
  • Importantly, Web Response Time needs access to traffic both to and from (both requests and responses) a monitored port.
  • Each Web Response Time instance can handle approximately 1.8 million requests per hour, depending on the size of the system and other factors.
  • A typical deployment is 5 - 20 web servers.
  • (Optional) Use Web Response Time to monitor WebSphere® or other Java EE application servers.